something made me suspicious and i checked out the cargo we found narcotics heroin in some drugs but what for him claims he didn't expect to find a driver who told authorities he was involved in drug smuggling. by himself is guarded by another policeman if. he's been taking drugs since he was twelve and went for treatment only recently after the prison warden found out he's in good company according to recent us congress report nearly half the afghan police are doing drugs well. when i grant you that as a policeman as i was doing i can't quite i bought for about two years all the other policemen here knew about it quite a few police drug addicts not telling anyone they're just saying i'm smoking something. pullet afghanistan's biggest jail many of the five thousand prisoners here are doing time for drug smuggling and or drug use but the locks are not

a sure safe way of keeping the drugs out. there. these are the different kinds of drugs we collected over the past years. this is a mix of opium your contacts. but then all of this is opium but this is the kind of tricks drugs inside a calm family members coming to visit bring these with them we found drugs in shoes over the years prison guards have been charged with lending a hand. up there will be yes it's true when i joined a few years ago lots of dollars were involved in smuggling drugs into the jail they are not very good educated and they don't have enough so there are a lot. joining to produce truth out of the people who join the police to solve them sir but the ministry of kontum a cottage insists it's now got

a hold on the problem before the police can become a police he get tested he will have sort of tests before coming to before going through the exercise or or becoming a police sergeant. this is something that has been developed and artemy level but questions remain what if some of those fighting afghanistan's drug war are actually foot soldiers for the other side and with the many challenges the country faces doesn't really have the resources to tackle the corruption within its ranks inside these four walls is a snapshot of the problems facing afghan society tell it members drug traffickers and petty criminals and the prisons are overcrowded porous here our team pretty cheeky frozen cardboard. as security has been tied in the cross the north of india as authorities fear a legal judgment on a religious side will spark massive unrest the high court has to rule whether the

land in the ancient town of ayodhya belongs to muslims or hindus it's a historic dispute the has already taken sounds of lives as current seeing reports . and uneasiness rests on the streets of new york here the battleground for an entire fleet legal showdown in those considered a two week a plot of land the sacred birthplace of lord rom a hindu board but previously it was an islamic mosque that stood here until in one thousand nine hundred two a hindu mob destroyed it that and the anti muslim riots that followed remain a blot on india's image as a secular country since then the government has resisted attempts to build a temple or a mosque on the disputed site and now there are fears that riots will follow but that the court supports the claims of hindus or muslims and that angers or your tears residents of all faiths because they feel troubled is usually for vented by outsiders and i think that might get in the entire muslim community here wants

peace whatever the verdict is whoever the man goes to we are ready to make sceptics for so many years political parties have used the religious sentiments of people to create trouble and gain votes we will not let them succeed this time. there's a real desire for a quick decision to allow people to get on with their lives shopkeeper on prakash pandey says his sales are down because pilgrims are staying the way it's covered with up with the impact to cement this is a temple town and if people don't visit because of trouble or increased security i can sell them my goods how can they survive like this. many analysts insist the india of two thousand and ten is different from the india of one thousand nine hundred two and both people and political parties will show restraint most indians have moved on from the divisive politics of religion to the more pressing issues of jobs and livelihoods badly here. the government should let the verdict come out

whoever it may be if it favors the hindus than our muslim brothers should not mind it they should accept it peacefully as a decision of the court and if it for. the muslims then my hindu brothers should also accept it gracefully. whatever the verdict this will not be the end of the judicial process as the losing side is certain to appeal to india's supreme court nevertheless this is an opportunity for the people to showcase an inclusive india of the twenty first century where the rule of law is followed and where religious bigotry has no please god in seeing. new delhi coming up in the program battling was a government find out why the tens of thousands of protesters across you were angry at their governments. and why being buried alive makes you mandalay stronger. major media outlets of the u.n. general assembly gathered to cover speeches for world leaders last week but when

the biggest countries left the show so did the media leaving other nations to talk to an empty room artie's marina found out just who was listening. an international circus of political power. public stress for new yorkers. reporters secret service and barricades three signs of world leaders are crammed inside one building for the annual united nations general assembly debate. this diplomatic gathering provides more than one hundred ninety countries an opportunity to promote their foreign policy agenda but generally it's always the same voices now is the time to build the trust dominating the states in identifying those responsible in the september eleventh attacks journalists flew in from all over the world to cover this seven day event with people who have endured too much more but once the richest and strongest finished pledging their promises. the press

prematurely concluded their coverage people don't care so it's kind of sad to hear but what you will see what. you know the. mainstream media pulled the plug on this international story friday evening with more than one hundred and twenty nations yet to speak by live trucks that most police presence nations like palestine congo and mongolia were left addressing half empty our torrijos by monday when cuba spoke of suffering under us and forgoes camera outside the un along to a tourist between two thousand and twenty five hundred journalists were accredited at the un for the general assembly debate and when u.s. president barack obama was here the room i'm standing in was when he laughed he took all the media attention with him now only a handful of journalists are left to report about all the other countries that are

addressing the international body the poorest leaders took to the podium campaigning for climate change and the scene inside the u.n. media center spoke volumes less than ten reporters. and garbage cans overflowing with recycled rubbish. that you see today also reflects that the u.n. suddenly doesn't draw as much attention. you know global governance seems to have so many challenges to address. to some extent there's a lot of difficulties addressed in those china just the first maybe garnering respect from its host country nearly seventy percent of americans think the u.n. does a lousy job in solving global problems maybe they should move it somewhere else maybe governor's island where nobody would be affected by it you know it's definitely inconvenient for everyone however most of the world criticizes americans for neglecting to understand the problems we only know what we're we don't know exactly what's going on. i don't know that's good or bad i mean. we should know we should

we should be you know the same for everyone if not the united nations may remain a place where everyone continues to talk and neglects to listen arena portnoy party new york. now this year has seen its fair share of natural disasters from a destructive earthquake in haiti to massive floods in pakistan a country should not be alone in fighting these catastrophes as russia's emergencies minister tells us a little later. of course we analyze all our work we exchange experience and advice with our western colleagues i would like everyone to realize that such disasters are not nation specific catastrophes know no borders customs nationalities or religion this is perhaps the most important lesson we should learn from this situation we should learn to consolidate our efforts to join forces to give a helping hand to each other and to do our job efficiently and that's. very new.

and i watch our full interview with russia's emergencies minister in just twenty minutes time here in our team. meantime towns of thousands of people have marched across europe outraged at their government's decision to impose a staring measures to pay off massive debts brussels saw the largest rally around the e.u. had quaters demonstrations carrying balloons banners and lowering whistles people around who work with the government to ensure stable jobs wages and pensions trade unions expressed few worry that workers have to pay for the bank's mistakes and wind out of staring measures could lead to even more unemployment david campbell batman a member of the european parliament blames the euro for most of the continent's current economic troubles. i think the euro is teetering on the edge this is a manifestation of it this is a massive problem and you can throw hundreds of billions trying to do but it's

beyond i mean the real underlying problem is you're trying to force together all these different types of column is some a doing very well others a very weak and you cannot force them together under one common currency called the euro the euro's a problem it's just unsustainable this as a say you know they're throwing hundreds of billions of euros that suit and the germans are paying through the nose and you know the majority of germans now want to leave the euro and that's conceivable that we recreate all the national currency is for certain strong currencies leave all that we currently one or the other and economic turmoil isn't only affecting europeans new census data in america shows the gap there between rich and poor is now wider than ever the u.s. also has a great as disparity of wealth among industrialized western nations that's fraud wolf a new york based economist told r.t. america's market and tax system is making society more unequal. the wealthy have been doing better than everybody else for the last thirty years what's happened in

the last two to three years is that everybody else is doing deadweight worse so the average person adjusting for inflation and even in some cases not adjusting for inflation in the united states is actually worse off than they were two or three years ago and the wealthiest people in the country are relatively better off and we can see a micro example of it right now in which we couldn't decide as a country to get rid of the bush tax cuts which have been ruinous to the us budget unless we were sure to pass along the savings to the top two percent of income earners what it means for millions of americans if they're in the bottom ninety percent of people in the country so eight out of ten are nine and ten but they're feeling like they can't get ahead and that maybe times are tough for them turns out to be true for the rest of the eighty to ninety percent of the country who've seen themselves working more hours if they're fourteen enough to have a job and taking home less money and they're seeing a situation where they're increasingly living in a society that has a distribution of income that we would normally associate with a developing country and particularly on the equal developing country if you're not

already in the top ten percent or so of this is cya the it's going to be very hard to get there in the sort of social glue of historic american life the social mobility the ability to get ahead of work is turning into an increasingly historically viable and presently incorrect fable of understanding which has little or no bearing on the lives of people in the country particularly younger people we've had a tax policy that's more or less intentionally made the society less equal for twenty years and is now getting more unequal by the day and so the market in the tax system that we have are working together to reduce the few things we had that used to equalize the distribution of income in the country. now fifteen suspected militants have been killed in two separate counterterror operations russia's southern republic of dagestan town of the kill terrorists were sealed off at a private housing estate where police had found two large bombs relatives of the militants were asked to persuade them to surrender but the insurgents opened fire instead authorities believed to terror acts were for oil at its most militants

killed by security forces and one day in the latest in a series of security raids which have been running for over a month and there were no police casualties in the operations but in a separate incident seventeen officers were injured from a roadside bomb that detonated in the same region. well as i'll take a look at stories from around the world and the u.s. government has blacklisted or a new officials for alleged human rights violations the sanctions freeze american assets of eight men including the revolutionary guard had bars them from getting u.s. visas for the moves due to fear alleged rose in a crackdown on opposition supporters after last year's presidential election staff increases pressure on these lawmakers public as tension rises over its nuclear ambitions. a landslide in southern mexico has left at least twelve people dead more than a dozen others are missing and some houses are completely destroyed blocked roads

in the area are making it difficult for rescue teams to search for survivors follows tropical storms which battered the country's eastern and southern regions last month. the european union has launched legal action against france over its expulsion of the roma minority the government's accused of breaking rules ensuring free movement and french officials say it's part of a crackdown on illegal immigration and crime critics say the country's unfairly targeting an ethnic minority but france has welcomed the e.u. decision not to weigh a more serious charge of discrimination. why. the rope in russia has come up whether the usual method to fight stress and the depression or burying people alive the organizers of this extreme treatment claim twenty minutes in a fresh grave might change your mind on many things in life i have a bad one to try the remedy. i above ground there are

a few signs of life below the surface a man trapped with his greatest fears pavel has just been buried alive for twenty minutes not torture but extreme therapy. oh fantastic it feels much better on the songs on underground. the first time travels anxiety got the better of him now he says he can handle the pressure. the first thing you experience is panic once your face is covered with dirt you start tasting it and thinking what the hell am i doing down here or do you want to come down to simply no other place like these these are the grave digging therapists modeling the burials on an ancient form of self in light and meant practice by shamans they wanted to make the rights more accessible believing everyone can benefit. is the most effective and powerful method overcome an internal problems person can neither see nor hear anything nor even move underground they have no other option but to

delve deep inside their minds. a burial costs you around one hundred sixty dollars attracting both men and women from students to fifty something professionals all aiming to suffocate their worries a full day's psychological training claims to prepare them for the fears they'll face. such you must permit conditions can be subconscious uncontrollable there are different ways to overcome them working with mental images rhythm breathing there is no rave means for a person to subdue their fear but we teach them the more that control of. the maximum burial is forty minutes beyond that the mind struggles to cope with the lack of physical function the day thirty centimeters any deeper and the pressure would be too great to stand once under the volunteers briefly this cheat the organizers a ten year veteran of living burials and says this shouldn't be tried at home. but

are we have to be able to get the person very fast and also contact them earth for us to be distributed in a certain way across the body so that the key joints or pressurized you can practice burials without knowing about things being. done until now i didn't think i suffered from any cost a phobia and that could soon change because i'm going to try this for myself now me given this to breakthrough which i'm told that we monitoring at all times so for now stop and all i have to do is make a noise so here we go. well they started to fill in my grave as it were yet this feels very very strange the soil is very cold and also heavy i'm doing all right at the moment but i think it's going to get a lot more scary and i was right five minutes after being buried alive i was very ready to see the light of day again.

was one of the weirdest experiences of my life i felt completely trapped and i'm definitely never doing that again advantage r.t. moscow. so a very brave man there now head to r.t. dot com for more stories and we're aligned for you twenty four hours a day here's a taste of what's online right now america's infrastructure is succumbing to the laws of gravity find out why thirty five bridges have lapsed in the state of minnesota alone. and as moscow's mayor gets the stamp russia's gay community is allowed to stage a protest on capital streets for the first time more on this had to our t.v. dot com. that brings us to the point where we need to get the business update from karena don't go away.

hello and welcome to our business program good to have you with us while europe is facing a multi-year slog out of the economic crisis in motion markets are talking more investor attention but will they be able to grow in the event of a shop slowdown in the developed economies as they have local reports. in the months leading up to the summer holiday season europe was gripped by fear that it would be overwhelmed by debt there was much talk of greece rial and reve in spain defaulting on their bonds this opened up the bleak scenario of the euro zone collapsing and dragging down the world economy just as it was recovering from recession but a bailout package later and investor started to focus their attention on the other big problem the precarious state of the u.s. economy over the summer what happened was that the markets started focus very much on the concerns of the double digit in the u.s. and the fact that actually german growth was coming through very strongly and they were quite slow to realize that the sovereign crisis in the or as i had never

actually gone away spreads were actually rising over the summer particularly in august when we had all the concerns coming through about the cost of resolving the financial sector crisis it all and and i think now we're in a situation where the markets realize this isn't a one year problem it's a multi-year problem while europe is busy cutting its way out of crisis much to the displeasure of public sector workers and the data from the u.s. is anything but comforting investors are looking for the next growth areas top of that list appears to be the bric countries brazil russia india and china but others strong enough to perform well if the developed nations start going into reverse again at least one analyst thinks not if indeed there is a second wave the second in the u.s. so europe i want you marcus will not be able to sustain that growth why do was say that is that because of a large share of trade and capital flows still a link to the u.s. and europe and therefore you know that into regional trade in the merger markets is

still very small and therefore if the demand in the u.s. or europe tanks completely then the emerging markets will no longer be able to export their big chunk of their goods will see a freeze up on the in the trade exchange and therefore slow down and growth. in short the merger you can't do not have the consumers to decouple they will not make it alone but given the moon water an outlook where the u.s. and europe can sustain some growth in the emerging markets looks to outperform this is clearly what many investors are expecting and is likely to be reflected by money flowing toward the new markets. business r.t. . and let's have a look at the markets the russians markets are still closed but equity markets finished off on wednesday with both iata has and the markets closing more than half a percent in the black. high with both spared bank and we see the finishing one percent higher energy majors also let some support from record one for sat close

and asian stocks are mostly lower on thursday massive protests against austerity measures across europe raise concern over the region's ability to cut debts make a slave's point seven percent after japan announced its industrial production fell for third straight month in august. long and steady measures tens of thousands of workers marched through the streets of brussels and other european cities protesting against these measures the european governments are using them to get their public finances back into shape following a deep economic recession european commission proposed earlier to impose new penalties on countries that let their budget out of control that's done to prevent another crisis like the one that pushed greece to near bankruptcy and raised hears about the euro currency will weigh container traffic in russia was hit hard during the crisis as demand for raw materials from the region slums but twenty to twenty ten is proving to be

a much stronger year for the way always. trans container explains. i think the growth of traffic will be equal to eighteen to nineteen percent this year usually the level of container traffic outstrips the growth of g.d.p. by two times or even more so of g.d.p. goes by five percent it means the growth of cargo traffic will be twelve to thirteen percent next year. russia's major gas producer gas problems start the construction of a new gas pipeline to china next year gazprom step it is said the two sides move closer to an agreement on the basic price during president made of suisun state visit to china they also agreed on new terms for gas shipments to china including the wood gas quality and the final point of the pipeline earlier this week gazprom agreed to supply thirty billion cubic meters of gas annually to china over thirty years' time study from two thousand and fifteen. it's the third of the only valid

reason for gazprom to provide a small volume with a large discount is to claim its share of the local market later the company and we hope to decrease through this current through a change in the pricing mechanism if need for russian gas rises in china in general a long term sale of thirty billion cubic meters of gas for a price that may turn out to be lower than in the domestic market looks unreasonable. and that's all they have that for now but you can always buy most stories if you log onto a website that r.t. dot com slash business.

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welcome back here with our t. here's a look at the top stories for you and serve. wreaking havoc in afghanistan we visit a kabul prison where former policeman are doing time for drug abuse and smuggling. security is being tightened across north of the north of india as a country awaits accord ruling on whether religious side belongs to hindus or muslims they store dispute has already taken sounds of lights. last week u.n. general assembly was packed with journalists gathered to cover speeches from world leaders one of the biggest countries left the stage so did the media leaving over one hundred nations seats. the russians will remember of the summer of

twenty one afflicted by scorching heat raging wildfires and choking smog next the country's emergencies minister sergei shogo tells our team what lessons were learned from this bitter experience. but the rest of his. fellow minister shagger thank you for your time this summer russia faced great forest fires and some are still raging why do you think it all happened on such a scale as the world cup when washed up so. well known among those are the key reason for all this of course is the record breaking heat we had in central russia along the volga river.